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Anything by Michael Bay is a mindless action summer flick. Man, he's such a hack director! I can't believe they're making him do Transformers. You know that will turn out to be mindless action crap! Even with Steven Spielberg producing. Oh yeah, anything produced by Jerry Bruckheimer too!

The kingdaddy of high concept, ultra cool action flicks is the John Woo movie Face/Off. Can anyone from Paramount care to explain why there isnt a special edition of it? I mean, duh, stick it in the same cool ass box that Castor Troy had chicklets. Throw in one of those crazy gold dragon money clips and I'm sold!

Deep Blue Sea and Dante's Peak are the best pointless action movies. I call them "Oh No!" movies. "Oh no, the shark got in the room. Oh, he made it into the oven, he's safe. Oh no, the shark turned on the oven.." etc.

The 1998 version of Godzilla starring Matthew Broderick was a movie that I anticipated a lot before it came out, and when I finally saw it, I was really disapointed. I was expecting a lot and Hollywood made me realize that I shouldn't get my hopes high. The only thing that left me screaming was the Puff Daddy song at the end of the credits. Spawn was another movie that I was disapointed. I love the Spawn character and the special effect, but I just didn't like the direction of the story.

So Stealth didn't seem all that mindless from the first looks of it but I already know the result's somehow gonna end up with yet another mindless action film. I'm still seeing it this weekend.

So in honour of Stealth, name some of the mindless action films you ended up watching or heard of from the past few years.

To me, the mindless action genre is that one film genre you turn to when you want to take a break from the most intelligent films, or when you just want to turn off your brain. Also, instead of turning to a comedy or if you need something to watch with buds on a Friday night, the mindless action film is there for you.

They are definitely guilty pleasures to me. Some I've seen are Half Past Dead, xXx, xXx: State of the Union and people even consider The Transporter under that category (would you?). If The Transporter's a mindless action film, screw everyone cause I'm seeing the sequel and nobody's gonna stop me.